Gaza and the West Bank are open air prisons with walls wrapped round them positioned with machine guns to prevent Palestinians from entering Israel. To enter Israel in order to work, Palestinians require a permit costing the equivalent of $618.
Blockades
After Gaza elected Hamas in 2006, Israel began a land air and sea blockade banning, a litany of items from entering, included medical equipment such as x-ray machines, electronic imaging scanners, lab equipment and elevators for hospitals; everyday food items such as sage, coriander, ginger, jam, halva, vinegar, nutmeg, chocolate, seeds, nuts, biscuits, potato chips, chickpeas, dates, tea, macaroni sweets, tomato paste and other items.
Calorie Diet - In 2008 israeli authorities drafted the Red Lines document, calculating the minimum number of calories that palestinians could eat before they starved. (1.890-2.100) ''the idea is to put the palestinians on a diet.'' - Dov Weisblass, advisor to Pime Minister Ehud Olmert. (Epstein client) The quantity of fruit and vegetables Gaza could produce for itself was expected to decline from 1,000 tons a day to 500 within a few months due to the Israeli ban on bringing in seeds, as well as the ban on exporting produce.
2023
After Oct. 7, Israel imposed a total blockade, cutting off electricity to Gaza and as a result, their power plant shut down. The only facility that had been reconnected to the Israeli power grid since October 2023 was the central water desalination plant in Gaza City. But in March 2025, Israel announced that power supply to that facility was also cut off. The Israeli military destroyed 84% of Gaza's water facilities, including those intended for drinking water and others for hygiene, sewage treatment, irrigation, and similar needs.
After these facilities were hit in air strikes, the Israeli military prevented efforts to repair them. Israel also systematically blocked the entry of assistance related to water systems and water provision for residents, including filtration systems, tanks, and materials required for water infrastructure repairs. This policy together with the widespread destruction of Gaza's sewage system led to the use of contaminated water and the spread of diseases resulting according to expert assessments in thousands of deaths.
The Israeli energy minister, the one who oversees the supply of energy into Gaza, stated on October 16th: ''I strongly oppose the opening of the blockade and the introduction of goods into Gaza on humanitarian grounds.''
David Nott testemoy - Trauma surgeon named David Nott who wrote for The Economist: ''Working at the only functioning hospital in Rafa, there were some 40 beds for 2,000 patients. Many had wounds that had been stitched but fallen apart, dressed with soden gaues, stinking of pus and bacteria. All were malnourished, further weakening their immunity and the normal healing process. As for medicine, allarmacies had closed down and there were no drugs. As a result, there was no access to daily medications for people with chronic illnesses such as diabetes and those with cardiological, renal, oncological, and hematological diseases. Some children could not breathe owing to the effects of simple chest infections that had progressed and turned their lungs into pools of pus. For the first time in my life, I found myself clinically diagnosing this awful condition, something you would read about in a medical book in the 19th century, in young children. Next to one six-year-old, I found half a liter of pus in the drain bottle.''
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By: GDF
Raped by: Otto Heckel
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